pseudocolonialism

Noun

pseudocolonialism (uncountable)

1. Something which resembles or appears to be colonialism (in various senses), but is really not.
   • However, it does not make sense to talk of blacks, who make up 85 percent of the population of South Africa, as a majority, because given the pseudocolonialism of apartheid (the legal segregation of the races), blacks have no power at all.1980, Reid Luhman, Stuart Gilman, Race and Ethnic Relations: The Social and Political Experience of Minority Groups, Belmont, C.A.: Wadsworth Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 101
   • English is the language of business, science, and technology, the language of modern empire and pseudocolonialism, and the language of Hollywood, of mechanized, corporate culture and consumption.2004, Julian Darley, High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis, White River Junction, V.T.: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 196